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While Athens began to decline during the fourth century B.C., the influence of Greek cities in southern Italy and Sicily spread to indigenous cultures that readily adopted Greek styles and employed Greek artists.
- Sparta
A characteristic Spartan figural type can already be...
- Gold Finger Ring Engraved With an Image of Hermes
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 53(2): p. 11....
- Youth Tying a Fillet Around His Head
Copy of a Greek bronze statue of ca. 430 B.C. by Polykleitos...
- Marble Head From a Statue of Harmodios
Copy of a Greek bronze statue from the Tyrannicide group,...
- Contexts for The Display of Statues in Classical Antiquity
In the classical world, large-scale, freestanding statues...
- The Five Wares of South Italian Vase Painting
South Italian vases are ceramics, mostly decorated in the...
- Profane Love and Erotic Art in The Italian Renaissance
Infinite Jest: Wit and Humor in Italian Renaissance Art....
- Still-Life Painting in Southern Europe, 1600–1800
The Art of Classical Greece (ca. 480–323 B.C.) Art of the...
- Sparta
While painting was never in classical art to become the representational art it later became, in the Hellenistic period, the formative centuries of Greek visual imagination, from 1000 B.C.E. to 400 B.C.E. saw a rapid succession in painterly styles—Geometric, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic—
Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms From Pergamon to Rome Edited by Seán Hemingway and Kiki Karoglou This handsome newly designed addition to The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s symposia series furthers the study of one of the most influential but less known periods of Greek art and culture. It is based on papers given at a two-
introduce archaic and classical art and show students examples of Greek vase paintings (and 3 Characteristics of art of the Classical period (about 480-323 BCE)
This new and richly illustrated overview of Greek painting combines a fresh scholarly approach to visual arts with the most complete survey to date of the painted monuments of classical antiquity.
This richly illustrated, color textbook introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through the Roman conquest. Suitable for students with no prior knowledge of ancient art, this book reviews the main objects and monuments of the ancient Greek world, emphasizing the context and function of
We will explore a diversity of powerful things and monuments from Egyptian pyramids and Near Eastern palaces, to the 'classical' art of Greece and Rome. This course offers a survey of the art of the ancient Mediterranean world.
